In our site - based work, which included in - depth interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, we examined 24 high schools with varying legal environments situated across three states (New York, North Carolina, and California), stratified by school type (traditional public, charter, and Catholic) as well as by
student socioeconomic composition.
It found virtually no change in the
estimated socioeconomic composition of the school's incoming first - year J.D. class from 1999 through 2012, despite annual tuition having risen by about $ 25,000 over that time.
In short, this analysis confirms that inspection ratings can help detect differences in teacher practice and parental satisfaction among schools with similar test - score rankings and
socioeconomic composition.
Some performance differences between schools may be related to
the socioeconomic composition of the school's student population or other characteristics of the student body.
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The socioeconomic composition of a school matters more to academic achievement than the racial composition.»
Factors that differ across schools — such as rigor of course work, teacher quality, and
the socioeconomic composition of schools — are all captured by school - level fixed - effects ηs.
This acknowledges a wide body of research that shows that
the socioeconomic composition of schools is the greatest factor affecting student achievement.
Socioeconomic Composition and Attainment 1 The Effect of High School Socioeconomic Composition on Student Attainment
As these low - income students enter private schools, where socioeconomic status tends, on average, to be higher than in public schools, their presence often alters schools» racial and
socioeconomic composition.
We find differences in the average achievement levels, the racial composition, and
the socioeconomic composition of classrooms within schools.
«Low - Income Students and
the Socioeconomic Composition of Public High Schools.»
This study uses a large sample of public school students from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 to examine the effects of high school
socioeconomic composition (SEC) on three sequential
High school
socioeconomic composition and college choice: multilevel mediation via organizational habitus, school practices, peer and staff attitudes
It includes measures of academic achievement and achievement gaps for school districts and counties, as well as district - level measures of racial and
socioeconomic composition, racial and socioeconomic segregation patterns, and other features of the schooling system.
... Overall, it is those families who (along observable dimensions) are least like the current population of private school customers that are most sensitive to price, suggesting that vouchers would substantially alter
the socioeconomic composition of private schools.
They concluded that high - poverty schools could work «if it were possible to alter those policies and practices that are associated with schools»
socioeconomic composition» (p. 2021).
Rumberger and Palardy (2005) found that
the socioeconomic composition of the school was as strong a predictor of student outcomes as students» own socioeconomic status.
However, a number of studies have found that the relationship between student outcomes and
the socioeconomic composition of schools is strong even after controlling for some of these factors, using more nuanced measures of socioeconomic status, or comparing outcomes for students randomly assigned to schools (Reid, 2012; Schwartz, 2012).
Research supporting socioeconomic integration goes back to the famous Coleman Report, which found that the strongest school - related predictor of student achievement was
the socioeconomic composition of the student body (Coleman et al., 1966).